We denounce current Israeli settlement expansion plans in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Israeli regime is seeking to redraw the geography of Palestine in a desperate attempt to hinder the creation of an independent Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced.

The government of Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would divide the territory in two and disrupt efforts by the international community to create a future Palestinian state.

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